mark meredith is at the nationa archives. unbelievably, that private life had vanished red. 58 years after the assassination, newly released document show just how far the government went to investigate his murder. in october, president biden ordered the release of nearly 1500 ones top-secret documents writing, the need to protect records concerning the assassination has only grown weaker with the passage of time. the file posted on the national archives website today contain thousands of cables, handwritte notes and reports prepared by the fbi, cia, and others. they re is a cia memo from may 1964 the details a person in australia claiming to have proof . countries were paying to have great australian officials late told the cia they thought it wa a crank call. another classified document revealed the government into their shooter at harvey oswald was in mexico meeting the
any major reveals? still going through. 1500 documents all posted on online. all tied to the government s investigation into the jfk assassination. there are a wide range of tidbits. a memo from may 1964 that details a call to the u.s. ambassador in australia who claimed to know about a plot. that source stated that the iron curtain countries were paying for the assassination of president kennedy. some believed it was a prank call. ever since jisk jfk s death there have been many conspiracy
bret: finally tonight, we are gets new information into one of this country s darkest moments. we are learning about the government s efforts to look into the killing of president john f. kennedy in 1963. here is correspondent mark meredith at the national archives. unbelievably that vibrant life had vanished. 58 years after president john f. kennedy s assassination newly released documents show just how far the government went to investigate his murder. in october, president biden ordered the release of nearly 1500 once top secret documents writing the need to protect records concerning the assassination has only grown weaker with the passage of time. the files posted on the national archives web site today contains thousands of cables, handwritten notes and reports prepared by the fbi, cia, and others. there s a cia memo from may 1964 that details a person in
april 17, 1964. weren t these the cars that blew up on impact? that was later. different car? yeah. that was the pinto. take us to the first car. we brought several different cars out here. so this is actually car that was built right about 50 years ago, in may, 1964. they called it a 64 1/2 mustang. this was the car that changed everything. why 64 1/2? they only built half a year that first year. cause 65 was the first full production year. and they flew out of dealerships. it was incredible. it was a whole new model for ford, a compact car, long hood, short lid. but they didn t have a lot of power. it wasn t until this next year that they this ask 1966? 66. this was the carol shelby, brought in to help turn the mustang into a real sports car.
comprehensive documentary series on the vietnam war is filled with stories and voices of ordinary soldiers on all sides of the conflict. but the most tragic aspect of the tale, for me at least, was to hear lindyn lyndon johnson o before full u.s. engagement admitting that the war could not be won. johnson s dilemma is one that every president faces and one that donald trump is bringing upon himself with north korea and iran now. in may, 1964, when the united states had fewer than 20,000 troops in vietnam serving only as advisers and trainers, this is what president johnson said to his national security advisor, george bundy. i stayed awake last night thinking about this thing. the more i think of it, i don t know what in the hell, it looks like to me we re getting into another korea. this worries the hell out of me. i don t see what we can hope to